Curses sorely lacking an event loop?

[James Stroud]

Hello,

Is curses really lacking an event loop? Do I have to write my own? I 
infer from the docs that this is the case. For example, I want the 
screen to be updated with resize but I find myself waiting for getch() 
if I want user input, and so the screen must remain ugly until the user 
presses a key. What am I missing?

Also, does anyone have boilerplate for handling mouse events? getmouse() 
returns an "ERR" of no particular description and also appears to 
require a preceding getch() and hence does not seem to be wired at all 
for clicks, although allusion to clicks is found in the descriptions for 
mouseinterval() and mousemask().

Here is the error message for getmouse() in case anyone wants details: 
"_curses.error: getmouse() returned ERR". This is much less informative 
than one might hope.

Thanks in advance for any help.

James